I need to decide whether I’m going to use $SplatParams or $SplatParameters….and then get that tattoo-ed on the inside of my eyelids or something
#Powershell
Watching a Word in Your Attic video which features a vaguely disappointing David Bowie Monopoly set
I was thinking you could make a good, slightly bleak Pogues monopoly set - Euston Tavern, the Hammersmith Broadway, the metal doors of Vine Street etc
Other acts might work too 🎵🎙️
Being an Elvis nerd of many years standing, in the normal run of the things I don’t often come across any new Presley trivia….but #TodayILearned that Colonel Tom was born on Boxing Day. 🎵
I got an email about HIMSS24. It stands for ' Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2024'….and I’m sure it’s marvellous, but being a sad, techie sort of geek I thought ‘HIMSS24’ looked like a datetime format gone wrong.
It’s a beautiful thing
I really enjoyed G’Wed
Like a mixture of Inbetweeners, Derry Girls and Grange Hill, but ruder, and Scousier
Worth putting up with the ITVx player for…which is high praise, actually 📺
Setting up a file-specific (not filetype-specific) colorscheme in vim
Setting up a file-specific (not filetype-specific) colorscheme in vim is a two step process.
First, you need a ‘modeline’[^1] in the file like this: [^1] a ‘modeline’ is a comment with vim instructions in it. My actual modeline for this file is ‘# vim: ft=readme syntax=markdown tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab’. There’s some explanation of modelines here: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Modeline_magic
# vim: ft=readme
‘ft’ here is, somewhat confusingly given my post’s title, short for filetype. The name of the filetype is kind-of arbitrary. It’s probably best to be descriptive, and better if it doesn’t correspond to an actual filetype like .md or ‘markdown’ or ‘txt’
Second, you need like this in your vimrc
autocmd FileType readme colorscheme peachpuff
Why would I do such a thing
I have a couple of ‘big old text files’ open most of the time.
One is for general notes, and a record of what’s happened during the week. The other is when I’m doing a chunky-ish bit of coding which records decisions, todo’s, worries and web-clippings which are specific to that code
Having a separate colour scheme just makes it handier to find either of the files I want when I’m alt-tabbing through my 103 open windows
#TodayILearned that the word ‘cockamamie’ is possibly related to ‘decalcomania’ which has to do with ‘decals’ - stick on decorations, or tattoos.
I’m putting together a chronology of stuff thats happened and stuff i’ve done, or been to..and i enjoyed memories of the Elephant Fayre
https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/elephant_fayre_1981-86.html
#TodayILearned that the passengers in the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ got $5,000 compensation for lost luggage, a refund for the price of their ticket, and a letter of apology
BBC Witness History - Miracle on the Hudson
Hoping everyone has a super Tuesday
#TodayILearned that the 1967 Beatles Christmas record was produced by Kenny Everett
Danny Baker - tracing the Beatles through their Christmas record
The Spotify graphic for Neil Diamond is a bit ‘1984’ 🎵
There’s something particularly sad about the death of one half of a double act
The stations on this line sound like they should be in the Lord of the Rings
#TodayILearned that Cinderella’s slippers may have been squirrel fur (‘vair’) rather than glass (‘verre’)
CINDERELLA’S SLIPPERS: GLASS OR SQUIRREL FUR?
This is definitely better than the view from the M5
Sir Keir/Kier Starmer needs to be Prime Minister for at least 10 years for me to have any hope of me spelling him with any confidence, or even with any consistency
When Kier Starmer gets on the blower and asks me what he should do in government, I shall tell him to make February the 29th a Bank Holiday
It’s a suitably cautious policy and I commend it to the house.
#TodayILearned the phrase "cheese it-the cops!"
#TodayILearned the phrase cheese it-the cops!
“A warning that the police were coming. “Cheese” might be a variant of “cease.” It might also come from the cheese course coming at the end of dinner; in the sense that with nothing else ahead, it’s time to leave. In either event, “cheese it—the cops!” was a staple of mid-20th-century crime novels and films, as well as such movies as The Dead End Kids and The Bowery Boys.”